Epic gives away free Fortnite glider as apology for glitched Unvaulting event

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Some players weren't able to witness the event, which saw the drum gun brought back into the item pool.

Epic Games is giving away a pricey Fortnite glider as an apology to players that weren't able to view yesterday's in-game Unvaulting event. During the event, fans voted to bring the all-powerful drum gun back into the item pool from the vault, where it was placed last year.

Yesterday, the official Fortnite account tweeted that "some players were unable to witness the Unvaulting event", and that it was investigating the extent of the problem. As an apology, Epic Games said that it would give away the Arcana Glider, worth 1,200 V-Bucks (around $12), to any player that was in the Unvaulting Playlist for the event, regardless of whether they missed the event or not.

Anybody that has already purchased the glider will be refunded the V-Bucks they spent on it, the developer said. The free glider or refund should be in players' accounts "in the coming days".

The studio also plans to release replay files of the event for players to watch from within the Fortnite client, it added.

For a full recap on the event, which saw Retail Row and Tilted Towers destroyed by a volcanic eruption, read James' piece here. It also includes video footage, in case you don't want to wait for those replay files.

Samuel Horti
Samuel Horti

Samuel is a freelance journalist and editor who first wrote for PC Gamer nearly a decade ago. Since then he's had stints as a VR specialist, mouse reviewer, and previewer of promising indie games, and is now regularly writing about Fortnite. What he loves most is longer form, interview-led reporting, whether that's Ken Levine on the one phone call that saved his studio, Tim Schafer on a milkman joke that inspired Psychonauts' best level, or historians on what Anno 1800 gets wrong about colonialism. He's based in London.